STFU MS can't tell a burned copy from a retail copy if it's stealthed properly...You won't get banned for playing a game like Batman early...only games you'll get banned for are games like Halo: epsilon Beta where they knew exactly who and how many people should have the game...but MS isn't going to ban you because you played batman early...they don't know that GS or Best Buy or wherever sold the game early...

u never know they'll probally flag u and then when the next banhammer comes around ull be included it makes sense tho i know i wouldnt go online with a game a week before it comes out its stupid as hell especially they know retailers aint letting it go

a lot of mom and pops spots let s**t go though... that's why n*ggaz be gettin s**t like Madden, Gears, and s**t early and what not every year... my boy hasn't been banned yet for coppin his games a week or less early.

CBG, If you can find me 1 person who has been banned for playing a game early, I'll eat your pus*y.

No, srsly, I'll munch that s**t out. No conspiracy theorists s**t neither, I want a muhf**kin' recorded phone call to MS and have that indian hoe say "YOU WERE BANNED 'CAUSE YOU PLAYED A GAME EARLY. GOOD DAY SIR."

I'd call GoW2 a pretty high profile release, and the fact that 3 weeks before release there was 12,000 ppls on the leaderboard already, says enough.

Stop telling people they get banned for playing early because it's not true, and any idiot with some logic could see it.

Playing back-ups before release dates since Summer '07. Never been banned.

CBG, If you can find me 1 person who has been banned for playing a game early, I'll eat your pus*y.

No, srsly, I'll munch that s**t out. No conspiracy theorists s**t neither, I want a muhf**kin' recorded phone call to MS and have that indian hoe say "YOU WERE BANNED 'CAUSE YOU PLAYED A GAME EARLY. GOOD DAY SIR."

I'd call GoW2 a pretty high profile release, and the fact that 3 weeks before release there was 12,000 ppls on the leaderboard already, says enough.

Stop telling people they get banned for playing early because it's not true, and any idiot with some logic could see it.

Playing back-ups before release dates since Summer '07. Never been banned.

"yeah if you play a game like gow2 or something similar early you will get banned"

sooooo you cant get banned for playing early but you can get banned for playing a game like gow2 early?

okay then..

which is why i say you can get banned for playing a game early, because you can.

in a particular instance such as batman, you probably won't get banned for playing early. but that doesn't mean its 100% not possible. ya dig?

when a game is sent out to the press or whatever for review, it can be a review copy. like what happened with saints row 2. and when people played that, they got banned. the review copy of that game did not have xbox live enabled.

but when a advance copy of a game DOES have xbox live enabled, they usually have a count of how many people have that copy of the game, and most likely what their gamertag's are.

"yeah if you play a game like gow2 or something similar early you will get banned"

sooooo you cant get banned for playing early but you can get banned for playing a game like gow2 early?

Okay then..

Which is why i say you can get banned for playing a game early, because you can.

In a particular instance such as batman, you probably won't get banned for playing early. But that doesn't mean its 100% not possible. Ya dig?

When a game is sent out to the press or whatever for review, it can be a review copy. Like what happened with saints row 2. And when people played that, they got banned. The review copy of that game did not have xbox live enabled.

But when a advance copy of a game does have xbox live enabled, they usually have a count of how many people have that copy of the game, and most likely what their gamertag's are.

I just can't see MS banning people for playing a retail game early. Bootleg game early yes, but a retail game that a mom and pop store just so happened to break the street date on ? I just can't see that happening, and I've copped games early and played on Live (halo included even though it was just me and some other kid co-oping the sp)